Almanac Poetry: A Very Minor Composer Speaks
Don Giovanni confronting the stone guest; painting by Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard, c. 1830–1835. [Source: Wikipedia.]
A Very Minor Composer Speaks
Like Mozart’s Don Giovanni,
my last opera
has, in a major role,
an imposing, black-robed character
who is really my father.
But the old man never tortured me,
so the work is not very interesting.
Also, there’s the talent issue.
(Acknowledgements: first appeared in micropress oz, 2003; then in my second poetry collection, Lionheart Summer, Picaro Press, 2011 – reprinted by Ginninderra Press, 2018.)
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Kevin Densley is a graduate of both Deakin University and The University of Melbourne. He has taught writing and literature in numerous Victorian universities and TAFES. He is a poet and writer-in-general. His fifth book-length poetry collection, Please Feed the Macaws ... I'm Feeling Too Indolent, was published in late 2023 by Ginninderra Press. He is also the co-author of ten play collections for young people, as well as a multi Green Room Award nominated play, Last Chance Gas, published by Currency Press. Other writing includes screenplays for educational films.
Ha! The talent issue. Very good.
Watch Ripley on Netflix Kevin. A character in that has an obsession with Caravaggio. Magnificent.
Thanks, Dips. Glad you twigged onto what this poem is getting at.
I’ll certainly check out your suggestion, too. Sounds like something I’d really get my teeth into – I’m crazy about the film Amadeus.